| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac: year. In the first place, circumstances were not always propitious:
sometimes the moon shone clear, or the last prank had greatly
irritated their betters; then one or another of their number refused
to share in some proposed outrage because a relation was involved. But
if the scamps were not at Mere Cognette's every night, they always met
during the day, enjoying together the legitimate pleasures of hunting,
or the autumn vintages and the winter skating. Among this assemblage
of twenty youths, all of them at war with the social somnolence of the
place, there are some who were more closely allied than others to Max,
and who made him their idol. A character like his often fascinates
other youths. The two grandsons of Madame Hochon--Francois Hochon and
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: feed upon men? No!" she exclaimed, answering her own ques-
tion, "there is no escape, for after one had escaped from the
palace and the city and the forest it would be but to invite
death in the frightful desert land beyond.
"In sixty years you are the first to find this buried city. In a
thousand no denizen of this valley has ever left it, and within
the memory of man, or even in their legends, none had found
them prior to my coming other than a single warlike giant, the
story of whom has been handed down from father to son.
"I think from the description that he must have been a
Spaniard, a giant of a man in buckler and helmet, who fought
Tarzan the Untamed |
